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Feminism 101 - Basics, Discussion, Homework Help
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[15 Jul 2009|07:41pm] |
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* Alguien podría si hay alguna manera de hacerme una página web sencilla donde poner mis fotos. Ya tengo Flickr pero me gustaría poder clasificarlas.
* No sé si me explico mucho pero bueno si alguien puede ayudarme se lo agradeceré mucho :)
** Gracias
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| The world has gone to the dogs |
[15 Jul 2009|06:25pm] |
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Okay, there are clearly a lot of problems with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB2MDYzx5OY. Clearly. How many of them did you spot on the first try? Bikini girl gives up everything to stay skinny, the whole more than a piece of meat bit, yeah. All of those are bad things, but they are not overly surprising. Watch again, and this time, listen to the background song rather than sexy meat eating bikini lady. Then watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSJytITxazU. Holy ef. Does everyone else see what just happened there??
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| I've decided to do it. |
[15 Jul 2009|05:59pm] |
"It" being the Everything Austen Challenge, that is. My participation won't be "official," though, because I waited to register for the challenge until I got home from work, and registration closed in those couple hours. I thought it would be open all day. Oh well, I'm still going to do it.
The challenge is to read or watch at least 6 Jane Austen-related books/movies between now and January. If that's too difficult, you can double it to 12 books/movies in the same time frame. I'm going to start with 6, because I think that'll be easy, but I might end up doing 12 instead.
I watched The Jane Austen Book Club for the second (maybe third?) time just the other day, so I'm going to count that as one of my 6 (12), since the reading/watching has to be done starting this month. That means only 5 (11) more to go. Easy peasy.
I haven't decided what else I'm going to read/watch, though. I'm going to be temporarily hindered by the fact that all of my books are in storage right now, since we're moving in just about three weeks (closing is in less than two!). I'm trying to get Tracy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tracyland ) to participate, too, though she probably won't update, if she does participate.
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| do you belong to a song? does the music save you whenever it's on? |
[15 Jul 2009|06:48pm] |
I love how I don't have internet, and I've still updated a megafuckton amount in the past few days. I'm very very sorry.
I don't even know why I'm updating. will you guys talk to me? say something random? I think I miss AIM a lot more than I should. I cleaned my room today, again (I know wtf is with me?) and we're having a yardsale/are going to the fleamarket on friday and saturday to make a bit of quick cash. I have a few piles of stuff, enough that I think I could make 50$ or more, and maybe chip in to pay a bill. I'm reading kidfic starting tonight and I'm so excited - it is handsdown one of my favorite stories of all times, any band, any fandom. the series is just. I've cried. ;__;
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| PSA |
[15 Jul 2009|05:29pm] |
My boyfriend and I like to take long walks late at night. The time of night when everybody is asleep or well, almost everybody.
Here’s the thing, when it’s a week night at 1am, being outside makes you suspicious already. There’s not really much good you can be up to at that time. So why do these people continue to be as conspicuous as possible? Criminals, if you are going to commit crime, don’t be so obvious!
If you are pulling up to a parking lot along the beach (a parking lot that is near nothing at all except the beach) it’s obvious that you are doing drugs. If a woman later gets out of the car and you drive off, it’s obvious there was some prostitution going on.
Hey kid, it was obvious you were thinking about breaking into cars. You were leaning against the passenger window looking inside, and kept looking around. When we when past, you jumped and were breathing heavily. Yeah, that’s right dickhead, we knew what you were doing. The fact that, after we went bye, you once again began psyching yourself up to break the window really just proves that you are way too inept to participate in crime.
Oh and dude I saw last night, standing on a corner at 1am with your hood up and putting your head down every time someone came by or there was a car in the distance is the equivalent to standing there with a neon sign saying “BUY DRUGS HERE!”
On a more positive note, last night, we went to Dorchester Heights. I always thought that the tall monument there was a church, and so did my boyfriend. Anyways, it was the site of George Washington’s first win for the Constitutional Army when 3,000 British soldiers were driven out. Major coolness!
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| girl who took gender hormones before puberty |
[15 Jul 2009|09:32pm] |
This is a YouTube clip of Kim Petras, a German girl who started life as 'Tim' and started taking hormones when she was 12. She had Gender Affirmation Surgery at the age of 15 and 16 and now says she feels complete in terms of her gender identity:
On the one hand, early intervention has saved her having to carry the descriptors of masculinity with her through her adult life, such as broken voice, Adam's Apple, masculinised face, larger hands and feet etc. Avoiding these features should help her integrate more easily in her affirmed gender role.
On the other hand, it must be a scary clinical decision to make that kind of intervention in the life of a child at such an early age, and how many children aged 12 could really be as clear as Kim obviously was?
In purely human terms, she seems to have found a psychological completeness and comfortable place in terms of gender, and I feel happy for her. She seems obviously, naturally female. I can only wish her much happiness.
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| Testing/Idiocy |
[15 Jul 2009|03:05pm] |
I just spoke with my nurse prac and I'm heading over to have more blood drawn. I did get a chance to ask her if I was correct and I was.
The test provided would indicate whether or not I ever had Hep B. It is negative. I have never had Hep B.
The test they require would indicate current infection and is a secondary test done because there may be a small window between when one is infected and when one develops antibodies.
The sample was stored five years ago.
The only relevent test to that sample is the one these people already have. If the test I am taking now returned as positive (it won't, but if it did), the sample they have would be proven infection free as the only way one could have pos-antigen and neg-antibody is if one was very recently infected.
I will now go scream.
Then I will get blood drawn.
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| male privilege |
[15 Jul 2009|02:31pm] |
Another FTM friend mentioned to me yesterday that he is aware now of receiving male privilege, which he (presumably) did not receive when he was perceived as female. This got me to thinking.
I know that one of the major characteristics of privilege is that the person receiving it is supposed to be unaware that they are receiving it. But, that said, I've looked pretty hard, and I'm pretty sure I'm not receiving it. In contrast with white privilege, which I definitely receive and wouldn't even remotely try to question whether or not I receive it...I really do not see any circumstance in which I am significantly advantaged being perceived as male than I was being perceived as female, and in fact I can point to a long list of situations in which being perceived as male is a significant disadvantage and substantially inhibits what I can or cannot do in social or professional circumstances.
So, I'm interested to hear other people's takes on this. This is a perfectly acceptable opportunity to tell me "Hey, have you noticed that you receive male privilege in [insert circumstance here]?" -- if I'm actually receiving male privilege, I would like to know about it! This is also a good opportunity to say "I know that I have received male privilege in [insert circumstance here]", especially if "male" isn't the only gender you have presented as and you have a basis for comparison (but even if you don't, your experiences are still welcome!) Discussions of situations in which women receive privilege that men don't are also welcome here; I'm not going to initiate them myself, but if you've got thoughts on that matter, bring it on.
To be clear: I'm not questioning whether or not male privilege exists. I'm trying to figure out whether I'm getting any, or if it maybe got lost in the....male. ;-)
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| I had to |
[15 Jul 2009|12:19pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ourbedrooms - a place to show your rooms and find new inspiration
I LOVE this place. since I've been planning on redoing my room/doing my room at my dad's new apartment, I've been a whore for interior design, as you can tell by recent posts. I think it's just because I'm so excited that by this time next year I'll have my own place (with roommate(s), whatever).
which reminds me...
ANYONE LOOKING FOR A CHICAGO APARTMENT ROOMMATE NEXT SUMMER?
I like to plan ahead, and I'd rather ask anyone on my flist before I go to roommate finders next spring.
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| So how about that college? |
[15 Jul 2009|10:53am] |
I think I'm going back to school. I'm going to meet with a UW Bothell advisor today, and I'm going to see what might be done about my going back Fall or Winter quarter. I don't really know what I'm doing - I love school, but I've never felt any inclination to do a job which required one to have a Bachelor's degree - but somehow, something is driving me to do this; probably the fact that so many younger or less academic (not less intelligent, just less academic; being "good at school" is a well documented phenomenon/skill) people I encounter have already achieved this level of certification and I feel like I have something to prove. I don't know; it's going to be fun though.
As a sidenote, I've been cooking at home almost every day and it's been wonderful and I was wondering if any of my particularly domestic (or just culinarily-talented) friends would like to share some cool ideas for things I can make! I do a LOT of Italian and a fair amount of pseudo-Mexican (I invented a weird combination of quesadilla, burrito, and enchilada that you cook in the oven in a pie tin). I'm looking to expand my horizons!
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| the whys of relationships / have reached a plateau, am frustrated! want to see a place to grow! |
[15 Jul 2009|11:00am] |
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 This is probably a completely incoherent entry -- even though it asks a lot of questions it asks none of them well, so consider them rhetorical. :-p
I've been thinking about the nature of relationships (both platonic and romantic) lately. I define a relationship as a connection between two people, deliberately deepened by sharing time, energy, and thoughts/feelings. And what is the point of relationships? I think that is the part that confuses me because I used to have really clear goals in my relationships. Goals like learning to trust and learning how to be honest and open and learning how to give&require respect. Now I've pretty much got that down and I don't know where to go from there. I don't have an easy WHY for any of my relationships, other than wanting to learn everything about everyone, and that's really unfocused and makes me feel like I'm stagnating.
( looking for a new focus )
Maybe it's something to do with my spirituality, integrating that more into my relationships. I've been feeling directionless there too. On a whim the other day I went to my old church for just a taste of communal love and even the worship had gone utterly stale. Which is to be expected since the leader has gone deeper and deeper into ridiculous dogma, but still shocking because I'd always felt magic in the worship.
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| meh. |
[15 Jul 2009|10:11am] |
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My reservoir of Cope is empty today. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if I'm in tears at least once before the day's out.
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| My own stupidity |
[15 Jul 2009|02:30pm] |
Goddamnit!
I was all excited about my new Macbeth trainers turning up. I was stupid enough take everyones (I.E the internets) commonly percieved wisdom that Macbeth's are vegan. Most of their own blurb says 'vegan' an awfull lot. So imagine my self hate when I discovered that the ones I'd bought were in fact made of fucking suede. Suede? fucking suede? If you're going to were an animals skin, at least treat it to last longer.
And it gets more annoying. I had purchased them from their american supplier. The shoes themselves were reduced, but the postage cost just as much as the shoes. Coming to a total of about £50. Now if I were to fork out to have them returned it would be about another £20. They don't refund postage. So I'd claw back about £5 out of the whole bum idea. I've taken the sensible option and have decided to sell them on ebay later, where I'll get back more than a fiver. Unless there's some big footed freaks reading this who want to buy a pair of size 13's on the cheap.
Yeah and I discovered that if I had used a different search term, I'd have come across a Uk retailer selling simillar, that actually were Vegan for a little bit less all in all. So yeah, I've had to buy them as well.
Fuck my stupidity.
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[15 Jul 2009|09:38am] |
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=407573
State lawmakers in Illinois and Nevada say troubled veterans who have relatively minor scrapes with the law deserve help, not punishment. They point to the high prevalence of PTSD and other conditions among veterans as possible reasons for their offenses. Backers of the courts also say that treating more low-level offenders will help improve public safety by decreasing the chances they will commit other crimes in the future and will free up valuable jail and prison space for more serious offenders.
Our Soldiers put their lives on the line and were destroyed mentally and sometimes physically by scheming jihadists thinking of ways to blow them up 24/7. This is much different than the average crime-committing black who has chosen to destroy their brain with an attack on education as "too white" and a constant use of toxic psychoactive hallucinogens like cannabis.
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[15 Jul 2009|08:14am] |
We have a unofficial tradition at the Quaker gathering: Sarong Day!
Unbeknownst to me, someone in my morning workshop drew a picture of me in my sarong and posted it in the art gallery. I found out about it when people started coming up to me and asking me, "Is that your picture up in the art gallery?" I hadn't put any artwork up there, so I had no idea what they were talking about. But lo and behold, when I walked into the art gallery later that day, I saw this in the very front of the display:
( dude! )
The artist was so delighted that I liked the drawing so much that he told me he was honored to let me keep it. But, since I didn't know if he were going to or not, da_lj was kind enough to take that photo of it for me.
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[15 Jul 2009|08:00am] |
Yesterday, I not only totally broke the Popcorn Is Not A Meal rule, but the other two meals were "kettle chips" and "bowl of soup".
Today I am sick. Surprise.
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